thunderstrike
Americanverb (used with object)
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Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
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to astonish; dumfound.
Etymology
Origin of thunderstrike
1605–15; probably back formation from earlier thunderstricken (adj.); see thunder, strike
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Meet Flora, travel with her, play the hypocrite, with smiles on my lips and hell in my heart,--or thunderstrike her at once with the truth;--what was I to do?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various
They stood in the doorway, as much astonished and thunderstricken as I was, glaring at me, so it seemed to me, with that soft, bright-brown lock of hair curling and clinging round my finger.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton
He had fallen as if thunderstricken on the Place du Château d'Eau.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
Louis, thunderstricken, could scarcely believe his own eyes.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Sutherland Menzies
The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
It was now time for the baronet to feel thunderstricken.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
As if thunderstruck, Leontes becomes irredeemably convinced that Polixenes’ acquiescence reveals an adulterous relationship between the two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The cuts were to go into effect three days later, leaving grant recipients thunderstruck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
More than 90 million Americans watched, thunderstruck, as TV helicopters provided live shots of the action.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
And I’m really thunderstruck at the number of people who are shocked, shocked.
From Slate ● May 7, 2022
Harry saw, with enormous satisfaction, that the Slytherin team were all looking thunderstruck.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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